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...then he smirked, a reaction that is actually the polar opposite of the deer-in-the-headlight look that overcame Dan Quayle when he realized he'd exposed his ignorance. No matter how remote Bush's answer to the question at hand, he thinks he's pulled the wool over the teacher's eyes, that with his innate smarts and abundant charm, he will not flunk History 101. After all, it's been arranged. He's going to be President...
...Back-in-the-day, as one is wont to say, we had CB jackets with Freaky Freazies inside. No need for smart wool jackets or canvas my-first-briefcases. We'd wrap a sheet of strawberry Fruit Roll Up around our index finger, then lick. Eeew. Anna stuck a tic tac up her nose. (The school nurse used tweezers to dislodge the one-calorie mint...
...modesty. Not over Bob Slate's or Bob Pollard. Family: not over the concept. Anna's not over her dog or the "hot Anna" photo we didn't run on page 28. Mica: not over yellow. Not over 11 X 17. Can't move beyond baths. Also not over wool. Not over Catcher in the Rye. Not over the Midwest, nope...
...profit artist-run cooperative exhibiting work of all media. Situated in close proximity to such prominent commercial galleries as Bernard Toale, Clifford-Smith and Genovese/Sullivan, it holds its own with substantive shows such as November's solo exhibition of Janet Hansen Kawada's powerful, near-animate creations of felt, wool and wire...
This deeply felt, deeply personal affiliation is, I think, a common brand of college politics on both ends of the spectrum--and it certainly has its appeal. There's something very satisfying about meeting another dyed-in-the-wool liberal and realizing that we speak the same language. We roll our eyes at the same time, we get worked up about the same kinds of injustices, we recognize that we're playing for the same team. In fact, this experience is so gratifying that it's tempting to just stick to our liberal selves and to stop dealing with...